Fake News Release Targets Scholars and Student Critical of Israel

By Peter Schmidt

A Stanford University student and two American scholars critical
of Israel are among the victims of a rough new tactic in the fight
over public opinion on the Middle East: a fake news release that
attributes to them inflammatory criticisms of Iran and a long list
of Arab nations.

The fake news release falsely depicts the student and scholars
as leaders of a campaign to boycott Iran and the Arab world.
Although obviously fraudulent to anyone who knows them and their
views, it was